Three more things, the never ending parade of musical things that can never be caught up with. Never ending parades? “Endless parade can refer to a specific classical music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, an Irish musical project by Gary Landers, or the metaphorical and literal use of “endless” to describe large, repeating processions of people…”

1: Christopher Trull – Frown Sounds – Three pieces of music and a full album of soundart, soundscape, experimental guitar and effects (I would have guessed keyboards and effects, you never really know what someone is painting with until they tell you, these aren’t guitar riffs), Just over fifty minutes of sound that kind of dtiffs in a rewarding inviting slightly jagged edged kind of way. He’s from St. Louis, Missouri, we know Christoper as a current part of Terms and once of Grand Ulena and of course Yowie, this is nothing like any of those bands we might know him for, this is Radiophonic Workshop style drones and hums, this quiet minimalism, warm, soothing… Bandcamp

Jeff Barsky – Voice Paintings – This is an almost perfectly named album, paintings indeed, paintings rather than sketches, solo pieces of sometimes abstract painting, beautifully sparse guitar work. Not quite a less is more thing, more a knowing where to stop thing when it would be so easy to overwork or over paint it all – “Voice Paintings is an attempt to share a vulnerability I’ve always wanted in solo records. Ideas in the raw, before I’ve gotten to study them, refine them, and release them back into the wild. I hear mistakes but I also hear possibilities. Here is an eight minute postcard that spans more than a decade; I share it as a love letter to being alive, a thank you note to the trees, a prayer to the moon”. Jeff Barskey’s music is always worth you time, be it his noise rock activities with Bedmaker or his soundart or this a set of beautifully solo guitar pieces… Bandcamp

The Cry – The Lost Tapes – The Cry, a trio formed by the always interesting Christine Ott (Ondes Martenot…) alongside Mathieu Gabry (piano, keyboards) and Pierre-Loïc Le Bliguet (drums), released their debut album on Gizeh last year, an album that blended avant-garde jazz, krautrock and contemporary classical music. Improvised in a single day in November 2022, “the album is a testament to this first encounter between the three musicians”, we did cover that back when it was released, we always try to keep an ear out for what Christine Ott is doing. The group decided to set aside a few recordings from that session; The Cry are now sharing those recordings.

“The Lost Tapes opens with two covers of related projects: a variation on Crossing by Snowdrops (from Singing Stones) and a trio cover of Golden Valley by Christine Ott (from her album Éclats), two pieces that they recently performed on stage at the Interstices festival in Lausanne.. This is followed by two improvisations: the classic jazz Oslo and the psychedelic Épiphanie, a hallucinatory celebration of this one-day encounter”. 

Now I don’t really want to be thinking about where jazz starts and where classical music or whatever we have here ends or where, if there is one, where the crossover is, what I’m hearting here are four pieces of rather refined intricate ear-friendly slightly left field experimental instrumental music. Yes, the very nearly ten minutes of Epiphanie could rather easily be called psychedelic but but but, importantly, far less obviously than most things the makers like to declare psychedelic. Elsewhere we’re playing with beautifully alive pianos and percussion, alive being the important word. This is fresh, this is refreshing, mostly quiet, inviting, enticing rather than demanding. This is mostly just four pieces of pleasure for you to just quietly explore…          Bandcamp

And have we shared these pieces of beauty before?

“A piece composed by Dr. Tim Smith of Cardiacs a.d. 1983, as performed by his loyal fans Barmy FiveSeveN at the Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Tivoli Vredenburg, 8th of September 2018. Retrieved as a piece of sheet music from a cardoard box, transcribed and arranged by Jos Zwaanenburg”.

Tim Quy (in a comment he left under the footage on YouTube): “Early 1980s, Tim Smith had a whole load of music written out which didn’t really fit the Cardiacs genre – but needed to be played. A side project was formed – Tim, Dom and me, plus Sarah on occasion – to rehearse and record some of these. We were probably called The Cardiacettes, most of the side projects were. Six Piffol tunes, and a few more including this. And another tune which ended up in the Cardiacs set, bet you can’t work out which song: first time it was played live I was stand-in bass player just for this song, as Jim hadn’t learnt it yet”.

We did share this beautiful version of Wireless back in 2020 but hey, we can share it again can’t we?

And from ten years ago, Rita Karpati’s Specific Ocean delivers you an out of tune/out of body experience from within the boundaries of a conservatory final exam….